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Dec 03, 2024
Resources / Others
- libGDX Plugin (⭐157) - A plugin for IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio that adds a number of libGDX features and tools, such as color previews and additional inspections for common mistakes.
Tutorials / General Learning Material
- Book of Shaders (⭐6.4k) - Step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders. GLSL.
- Game Programming Patterns - Architecture and design patterns for games.
Nov 28, 2024
Other Lists / General Learning Material
- Awesome Gamedev (⭐2.7k) - A collection of free software and free culture resources for making amazing games.
Nov 14, 2024
Assets / General Learning Material
- Jsfxr - Quickly create unique sound effects by pressing a few buttons, excellent for prototyping.
Apr 10, 2024
Tutorials / Getting Started
- Development Tutorial Playlist by Phillip Mod Dev - A series of videos going over the basics of libGDX.
Jul 15, 2023
Resources / Setup and Deployment
- gdx-liftoff (⭐607) - A modern setup tool for libGDX that supports more backends and allows adding libraries with one click.
- libgdx-library-template (⭐16) - A skeleton project for making new libraries, since they need different config.
Resources / User Interface
- TextraTypist (⭐116) - Like TypingLabel (below), but also supports styles, emoji, multiple fonts, clickable links, etc.
Resources / Visual Effects
- colorful-gdx (⭐89) - Expands how tinting can affect colors; also has many pre-written shaders.
Resources / Others
- anim8-gdx (⭐48) - Allows saving (animated) GIFs and PNGs from sequences of Pixmaps, with configurable dithering if needed.
May 23, 2023
Resources / Editors
- Mundus (⭐174) - World/level editor for 3D worlds with a runtime for libGDX.
Nov 25, 2022
Resources / Audio
- gdx-pd (⭐29) - Pure Data extension for libGDX.
Oct 27, 2022
Resources / Audio
- TuningFork (⭐35) - Advanced 3D audio features for libGDX desktop users.
- gdx-miniaudio (⭐60) - Advanced Cross Platform Audio Engine for libGDX based on MiniAudio.
- gdx-sfx (⭐23) - Some goodies for better sound effects in libGDX.
May 23, 2022
Resources / Visual Effects
- gdx-graph (⭐46) - Provides a GUI to design your rendering pipeline and shaders, and a library to easily incorporate them into your games.
Apr 30, 2022
Tutorials / Getting Started
- Scene2D.UI From the Ground Up (⭐465) - Covers the basics of UI design in Scene2D, libGDX's premiere scene graph and layout toolkit.
Tutorials / Advanced
- Introduction to 3D Series - A tutorial series on libGDX 3D using gdx-gltf.
Mar 12, 2022
Resources / Visual Effects
- HackLights (⭐29) - Lightweight framebuffer based lighting engine for libGDX.
Jan 18, 2022
Resources / Physics
- Box2D - One of the most popular physics libraries for 2D games.
- Bullet - 3D Collision Detection and Rigid Body Dynamics Library.
Resources / User Interface
- Freetype - Generate BitmapFonts of your desired size on the fly from lightweight .ttf font files.
Tutorials / Getting Started
- Official libGDX Wiki - Official libGDX wiki that contains a huge amount of information.
- libGDX External Tutorials - Big list of official unofficial tutorials.
Oct 10, 2021
Resources / Controllers
- gdx-controllers (⭐76) - Adds support to gamepads and joysticks.
Resources / Others
- gdx-jnigen (⭐80) - Small library that allows C/C++ code to be written inline with Java source code.
Apr 21, 2021
Tutorials / Getting Started
- Tann's Hello libGDX - An excellent guide for beginners on how to create a game from scratch.
Apr 04, 2021
Resources / Editors
- HyperLap2D (⭐403) - Visual editor for complex 2D worlds and scenes with a runtime for libGDX.
- Spine - Skeleton-based animation tool that focuses specifically on 2D animation for games.
Apr 03, 2021
Tutorials / Getting Started
- Brandon Grasley's Space Shooter Game - Video tutorial series on making a complete Android game from scratch.
Oct 17, 2020
Resources / Visual Effects
- libgdx-screenmanager (⭐110) - A screen manager for libGDX supporting various transition effects
Aug 24, 2020
Resources / Algorithms and AI
- Simple Graphs (⭐48) - A java library for graph data structures and algorithms (including fast pathfinding).
Resources / Physics
- jbump (⭐35) - Easy to implement AABB collision detection useful for platformers and other simple 2D games.
May 15, 2020
Resources / Visual Effects
- gdx-gltf (⭐227) - GLTF 3D file format support (import/export), PBR shaders, and others advanced rendering.
Feb 16, 2020
Resources / Others
- KTX (⭐1.4k) - Kotlin extensions and utilities for libGDX.
Feb 15, 2020
Resources / Visual Effects
- gdx-vfx (⭐201) - Flexible post-processing shader visual effects based on libgdx-contribs-postprocessing.
Resources / Others
- gdx-dbgagent (⭐34) - Java Agent for debugging common issues, like objects not being disposed and constants such as Color.WHITE being modified.
Jan 19, 2020
Resources / User Interface
- PieMenu (⭐86) - Radial menus for Scene2D that are highly flexible and easy to customize.
Oct 31, 2019
Resources / User Interface
- msdf-gdx (⭐35) - Provides lightweight utilities to draw high-quality MSDF (multi-channel signed distance field) text on libGDX.
Aug 18, 2019
Resources / Services
- gdx-gameanalytics (⭐32) - Game Analytics REST API client implementation for libGDX. Works on all backends.
Resources / User Interface
- Skin Composer (⭐465) - Create skins for libGDX scene2d.ui with a graphical interface.
- TenPatch (⭐49) - An alternative to libGDX's 9patch implementation that implements multiple stretch regions.
- TypingLabel (⭐161) - A libGDX Label that appears as if it was being typed in real time.
- VisUI (⭐757) - Allows to create nice looking UI in libGDX using scene2d.ui. Note this is not a UI editor.
Resources / Others
- Texture Packer GUI (⭐660) - A simple way to pack and manage texture atlases for libGDX game framework.
Tutorials / Getting Started
- Creating a Launcher - Video tutorial on using libGDX to make a game launcher.
- Deploying with JPackage (⭐465) - A tutorial on deploying libGDX games with JPackage via Gradle commands.
Tutorials / Advanced
- Code Hotswapping - Video tutorial on enabling code hotswapping for libGDX projects to increase productivity.
Community / General Learning Material
- Reddit - Unofficial subreddit for libGDX. Not a lot of activity.
Aug 15, 2019
Other Lists / General Learning Material
- Game Accessibility Guidelines - A straightforward reference for inclusive game design, to ensure that games are just as fun for as wide a range of people as possible. Recommended
Aug 10, 2019
Resources / Setup and Deployment
- Packr (⭐2.6k) - Packages your JAR, assets and a JVM for distribution on Windows, Linux and macOS.
Aug 09, 2019
Resources / Controllers
- sdl2gdx (⭐82) - Powerful gamepad implementation using SDL. Supports hundreds of controllers under the same mapping, rumble, and hotplugging.
Resources / Visual Effects
- Shape Drawer (⭐193) - A performant alternative to ShapeRenderer that avoids Batch flushing.
Jun 03, 2019
Tutorials / Advanced
- Dynamic Textures with Pixmap - Details how to create a mask using Pixmaps.
- iOS Deployment Tutorial - Deploying to iOS in 2019 using RoboVM.
- Sub-pixel Perfect Smooth Scrolling - Pixel-perfect smooth scrolling.
Assets / General Learning Material
- Kenney Assets - High quality assets for your game, from 2D and 3D art to sound effects.
- OpenGameArt.org - Repository offering a variety of open content assets.
- Game-Icons.net - Repository containing heaps of cool game related graphics.
- freesound.org - Huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps.
May 29, 2019
Resources / Algorithms and AI
- gdx-ai (⭐1.3k) - Artificial Intelligence framework featuring Steering Behaviors, Formation Motion, Pathfinding, Behavior Trees and Finite State Machines.
Resources / Controllers
- gdx-controllerutils (⭐60) - Adds Scene2D button input support, user configurable button mappings and hotplugging for LWJGL2.
Resources / Services
- steamworks4j (⭐496) - A thin wrapper which allows Java applications to access the Steamworks C++ API.
Resources / User Interface
- gdx-dialogs (⭐80) - Provides cross-platform support for native dialogs.
- InGameConsole (⭐136) - Allows a developer to add a console (similar to how it is featured in Source games) to their game.
Resources / Visual Effects
- Box2DLights (⭐262) - 2D lighting framework that uses Box2D for raycasting and OpenGL ES 2.0 for rendering.
- Particle Park (⭐75) - A showcase of downloadable particle effects with live previews.
Resources / Others
- gdxGifRecorder (⭐39) - A utility class that records a GIF and saves it automatically.
- noise4j (⭐105) - Simple map generators based on various procedural content generation tutorials.
May 26, 2019
Resources / Entity Component System (ECS)
- Artemis-odb (⭐811) - High performance java based Entity-Component-System framework.
- Ashley (⭐890) - A Java entity system inspired by Ash & Artemis.
Resources / Services
- gdx-facebook (⭐60) - Provides cross-platform support for Facebook Graph API.
- gdx-fireapp (⭐64) - Cross-platform API for Firebase.
- gdx-firebase (⭐36) - Cross-platform (only Desktop/Android) API for Firebase.
- gdx-gamesvcs (⭐115) - Easy integration of gameservices, such as Google Play Games, Apple Game Center, and more.
- gdx-pay (⭐230) - Provides a cross-platform API for InApp purchasing.
Resources / User Interface
- gdx-skins (⭐528) - Free Scene2D GUI skins.
- Ray3K Skins - Free Scene2D.UI skins with example code, custom drawables, and experimental features.
Tutorials / Getting Started
- JSON in Game Dev - General tutorial on using JSON for storing data.
- Progress Bar Design (⭐465) - Discusses the pros and cons of different progress bar design techniques with examples.
Community / General Learning Material
- Discord - An active chat with various leaders from the community available every day. Recommended
Other Lists / General Learning Material
- Game Networking (⭐8k) - A Curated List of Game Network Programming Resources.
- Game Talks (⭐1.1k) - A curated list of gaming talks (development, design, etc).
- Java (⭐44k) - A curated list of awesome Java frameworks, libraries and software.
- Kotlin (⭐11k) - A curated list of awesome Kotlin related stuff.
- Magic Tools (⭐15k) - A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen.